Card-cabinet plate-check.



W. H. HAWKINS.

CARD CABINET PLATE CHECK.

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1,058,236. i Patepted Apr. 8, I913.

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CARD-CABINET PLATE-CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8, 1913.

Application filed July 30, 1912. Serial No. 712,363.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HAW- States, residing at Springfield, inthe county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful Card-Cabinet Plate-Check, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to card cabinets and more particularly to a checkfor the follower plate in card cabinet drawers.

The object of this invention is to provide the follower plates in cardcabinet drawers with a check, preferably of metal, for positivelyretaining the follower plate in fixed vertical posit-ion, but allowingof adjustment thereof for the placing of cards in the drawer, andcapable of being reversed so that it may operate equally as well ineither direction to retain cards between the follower plate and thefront or rear of the drawer as desired.

By this invention the follower plate is positively fixed by a simple andinexpensive attachment and always retains the cards in proper relation.Furthermore the check is so constructed that the cards may be held v aswell against the front or back of the drawer as desired. It is alsoobvious that this construction may be advantageously applied inbookcases where adjustable shelves are desired by applying one or morechecks at the back of the shelf extending upward therefrom, or to deskbookracks by providing a follower plate at each end with check extendingoutward.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal sectional View showing drawer in section. Fig. 3 is acrosssectional view of the plate-check showing the plate in background.Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the plate-check. Fig. 5 is aperspectiveview of the modified platecheck showing prongs f to prevent displacementof same while the plate carrying it is in a vertical position. Fig. 6 isa modified longitudinal section similar to Fig. 2 and showing the cardsplaced in opposite arrangement in the drawer with the plate andplate-check reversed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The drawer a is provided with a central, longitudinal slot 6 in itsbottom terminating at one end with a transversely enlarged terminal e.The follower plate 6 having the handle 0 rests upon the bottom and ismounted to travel between the sides of the drawer to retain filing cardsbetween the plate and the front or back of the drawer as desired.

The follower plate isv provided with a check wholly below the uppersurface of the drawer bottom to positively retain the plate in fixedvertical position, but allowing of adjustment for the placing of cardsbetween the plate and one end of the drawer, and is .adapted byreversing the plate to act equally as well to retain cards between theplate and the other end of the drawer.

The check comprises the longitudinal member (Z adapted to travel betweenthe sides of the longitudinal slot e in the drawer bottom and is securedat one end to the bottom of the follower plate 6, preferably by screws hpassing through perforations p in the longitudinal member (Z. The freeend of the longitudinal member d is provided with transverse arms clextending on either side and adapted to pass under the lower surface ofthe drawer bottom, and each arm is provided with means for positivelyengaging the uncler surface of the drawer bottom to retain the followerplate in a fixed vertical position. As shown in Fig. 4, this means isformed by constructing the arms (l with a curved upper surface d joiningthe top of the longitudinal member d, so that when the follower plate isadjusted and brought to a vertical position the curved surfaces (Zpositively engage the under sides of the slot 0 and retain the plate infixed position. The same result may be formed byproviding each arm dwith an upstanding prong f upon the upper side thereof, which prong willenter the under surface of the drawer bottom as the follower plate isbrought into a vertical position.

The transverse terminal 6 of the longitudinal slot 6 is of such size andshape as to allow the transverse arms (Z of the check topasstherethrough. When the terminal 6 is at the back of the drawer and it isdesired to place the follower plate at the back of the cards 70, as isshown in Fig. 2, the check. is inserted by passing the arms through theterminal, as shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The follower plate isthen brought to an upright position with the check extending toward thecards or front of the drawer. A number of cards having been placed inthe drawer, the follower plate is moved forward by inclining the plateslightly to the front until properly adjusted and then brought up to avertical position which drawer, as SliOWIla in Fig. 6, the plate isremoved, turned over or reversed, the check passed through the terminal,and brought into upright position. It is thereby seen that the checkwill operate equally as well to retain cards between the plate and frontor back of the drawer, as it is only necessary to arrange the plate withthe check extending in the direction of the cards.

hat I claim is:

l.'In a drawer or receptacle, a bottom having a longitudinal slot, aplate adapted to travel thereover, a check therefor comprising alongitudlnal member secured at one end to the plate and adapted totravel a in said groove, said member provided at its free end withtransverse arms extending below the under surface of the bottom, andmeans upon said arms for positively engaging the bottom to retain theplate in fixed position.

2. In a drawer or receptacle, a bottom having a longitudinal slot, aplate adapted to travel thereover, a check therefor comprising alongitudinal member secured at one end to the plate and adapted totravel in said groove, said member provided at its free end withtransverse arms extending below the under surface of the bottom, andupstanding prongs upon said arms for positively engaging the bottom toretain the plate in fixed position.

WVILLI-AM H. HAlVKINS.

Witnesses:

JAMES L. BOWEN, \V. L. BENTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). 0.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 1,058,236.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,058,236, grantedApril 8, 1913, upon the application of William H. Hawkins, ofSpringfield, Massachusetts,

for an improvement in Card-Cabinet Plate-Checks, an error appears in theprinted specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 35,for the Word out- Ward read inward; and that the proper corrections havebeen made in the files and records of the case in the Patent Ofice andare hereb3 made in the said Letters Patent.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of May, A. D., 1913.

[SEAL] (J. C. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

